[Fedora-marketing-list] More on the millions
Marc Wiriadisastra
marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Tue Jan 9 22:41:44 UTC 2007
I would say whats helped this a lot is the free media project. I'm not
saying its the only thing but I think that has been one of the most
successful projects launched to help non users to experience Linux and
Fedora.
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> "Red Hat's Fedora Core 6.0 Linux distribution has crossed the million
> user milestone. Is it enough for the community-driven Linux distribution
> to claim it's the most popular Linux version?
>
> Let's go to the stats. According to Fedora Project statistics, Fedora
> Core 6.0 has averaged 9.4 new installations every minute since the
> release of Red Hat's community driven distribution in late October"
>
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652771
>
> "On average, Red Hat is seeing over 95,000 Fedora Core 6 installs per
> week, which is a very high rate for an operating system, Linux or not.
> And the numbers are growing as time progresses, with recent weeks above
> 100,000 new installs and the Christmas and Hanukkah holiday week
> accounting for 130,000 downloads. Those numbers do not count
> installations from mirror sites on the Internet that distribute Fedora
> Core, by the way. (You can see the stats for Fedora Core 6 downloads on
> this page.)"
>
> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb010907-story07.html
>
> Rahul
>
>
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